Download or read book AKAN ASHANTI FOLKTALES Revised and Annotated written by and published by Prince Sarfo-Adu. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 75 Ashanti tales recorded in the Ashanti and Kwawu areas of Ghana.Each folktale in Twi/Akan dialect of the Tshi language, is followed by an English translation. The English translation is, throughout, made as nearly literal as possible.(At this point, one meets a certain difficulty in a conflict between a desire for accuracy and an endeavour to give a translation acceptable to English ears). First published in 1930 by R.S. Rattray, this edition features a modern Akan/Twi orthography with a brief introduction to the Language. Ashanti folktales often tell a moral lesson, describe a myth, or answer a question about the natural world. Most of the Ashanti tales use animal characters to represent human qualities such as jealousy, honesty, greed, and bravery. Ananse, the spider, is a trickster figure who appears in many of the Ashanti tales. With regard to the classification of these stories, it will be observed that the majority of them fall under one or other of the well-known headings: drolls and cumulative tales; apologues or tales with a moral; aetiological stories, accounting for physical characteristics in men and beasts, e.g. How the Leopard became Spotted; etymological tales, e.g. How the Ram came to be called Odwanini. Each and all of the stories in this volume would, however, be classed by the Akan-speaking African under the generic title of “Anansesɛm” (Spider stories), whether the spider appeared in the tale or not.

Download or read book Dig Me a Grave written by John Spain and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of blackmail, and of murder leading out of blackmail, which is realistic, hard as nails in spots, but also gentle, whimsical, and tolerant of human frailties. Originally published in 1942.

Download or read book West African Folktales written by Richard Spears and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 123 tales reflect the rich oral tradition of West African folklore. Playful and sly, they teem with talking animals and shape-shifting tricksters, with pacts and promises made and broken, and with impossible deeds done through chicanery and magic. These tales deal with themes common throughout West Africa and the world. Indeed, American readers will recognize such characters as Brer Rabbit and the "tar baby," which had their roots in the folklore of this region. Because there is no overlay of Western values, however, some of the morals may surprise the unsuspecting reader—murder and polygamy, cannibalism and cunning, witchcraft and revenge spin matter-of-factly throughout the stories.

Download or read book Pick me up written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hobbity Bobbity written by A.S.F and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobbity Bobbity and the Red Bush Forest is the story of an incredible journey into a cursed forest where no Bobbity ever dared to go. Who is Hobbity Bobbity? Hes a not-so-average teenage boy destined to become larger than life. Traveling between the past and the future, Hobbity meets several characters along the way who help him unlock the secrets of the Red Bush Forest and stop an evil enchantress from stealing all light from every planet in the galaxy. Packed with fun, laughs, and adventures, Hobbity Bobbity and the Red Bush Forest is sure to be a favorite book for all ages.

Download or read book Can We Talk and Other Stories written by Chinodya, Shimmer and published by Weaver Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.

Download or read book The Locket written by Sandra Mc Cuaig and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about a preacher who because of losing so many things in his life and now being forcibly retired goes crazy and delusional. He starts to rob graves, seeks revenge on his enemies, cannibalizes some of his dead congregation, and does other terrible things. This book has many things going on that l think readers will enjoy, so sit back and read this unforgettable book.

Download or read book Can We Talk and Other Stories written by Shimmer Chinodya and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.

Download or read book You Can Never Satisfy a Woman written by Robert Gonzalez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can Never Satisfy A Woman is about many things in a woman’s life that happens. The story is about a woman the way she thinks, speaks and do things. These experiences, thoughts and research I have learned growing up to adulthood about woman or women. A woman mind can change anytime, so you have to be ready.

Download or read book written by David L. Gerke and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many books written on Billy the Kid but never one quite like this one. Master Psychic, Dave Gerke 's work within the spirit world tells Billy 's story as facts rather than fiction. It is based on numerous readings with Billy. It is a story of a young boy turned killer in order to survive; than found out that he liked the experience of his crimes, his killings, and the mutilations. This story twists with a startling ending as the relationship between Billy the Kid and Dave Gerke, the Master Psychic, culminates. As the book evolved Billy said, I m sorry Dave. I m sorry I let you down. You didn t know any of this stuff. I heard you say to your wife, if I had known all of this I wouldn t of wrote the book and if I had known you d went this deep, I wouldn t of come to you wanting you to write it. Who really killed Billy the Kid? Who kept most of the reward money? Who turned him in to Pat Garrett? Did Paulita really love Billy? Where is Billy buried now? Where is Billy 's Loot? These and other never before answered questions are explained and answered finally. Dave Gerke is a Master Psychic, who excels in talking to the spirits; can communicate with any spirit that he calls up. He is extremely mastered in his field. Being a Master Psychic is truly rewarding in that he can help others through the gifts given by His Great GOD.

Download or read book Alternative Japanese Drama written by Robert T. Rolf and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major renaissance in Japanese theater occurred in the 1960s. During this period, the implications of Japan's prewar actions as well as its postwar materialistic course were interrogated with fierce intensity. Nowhere was the depth and dynamism of this cultural questioning more clearly expressed than in theater. Fueling the explosion of seminal theater activity that took place was the generation of young artists who are the focus of Alternative Japanese Drama.Foreword by J. Thomas Rimer

Download or read book Divided Decade Collection Boxed Set written by Michelle Isenhoff and published by Michelle Isenhoff. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series nominated for the 2012 Great Michigan Read. The Divided Decade Collection includes three stand-alone novels that view the American Civil War through three different lenses. All three have been highly acclaimed by home-schoolers and teachers like and are regularly purchased for classroom use. The books can be read out of order. Set also includes two bonus short stories. Over 500 pages. THE CANDLE STAR After a tantrum, Emily Preston is shipped from her plantation home to her inn-keeping uncle in Detroit. There Emily meets Malachi, son of freed slaves, who challenges many ideas she grew up believing. But when Emily stumbles upon two runaways hidden in her uncle's barn, she finds that old ways die hard. And Mr. Burrows, the charming Southern slave catcher, is only yards away, lodged in the hotel. BLOOD OF PIONEERS Hannah Wallace craves excitement, but all local adventures dried up long ago, when her parents unpacked their wagon on the Michigan frontier. Then war breaks out and her father and older brother leave to fight the Confederacy. Hannah is left at home chafing under the boredom of never-ending chores, jealous of her brother's lucky opportunity, and haunted by old memories--until unscrupulous speculators set their sights on the unmanned farm. The one place she longs to leave suddenly becomes the one place she'll risk everything to save. BENEATH THE SLASHINGS (Slashings--n. Broken branches, splintered trunks, and other debris left on the ground after lumbering: The slashings lay strewn about like casualties of war, cold, gray and skeletal.) Grace Nickerson's life has been shattered by four years of war. She's desperate to return to a sense of normalcy, but soon after her father returns, he sells the farm and drags the family to a lumber camp in Michigan's northern wilderness. Living in the primitive camp is dangerous enough, with its rough loggers and hard-bitten soldiers, but then a series of accidents prove intentional. Who is sabotaging the camp, and why? Will the winter in the woods bring the healing Grace's family needs? Or will it drive a wedge between Grace and her father? Likened to the rich literary style of Ann Rinaldi but with its own twist of adventure, the Divided Decade Collection wraps American history in an exciting, kid-pleasing package. Find out why so many teachers have incorporated this Civil War historical fiction series into classrooms across the country. Save significantly over individual titles; purchase the boxed set today and open a door to America's past for your child.

Download or read book Comes the Night written by Norah Wilson and published by Something Shiny Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ow far would you go to escape your own personal teenage hell? Would you run away, break away from everything you know—even your own body? Alex Robbins, Brooke Saunders and Maryanne Hemlock could not be more different, yet they all have something in common—deep and soul-searing pain. They are also all students at Streep Academy, a boarding school just one step away from juvie, where they've come to complete high school. In the forbidden attic of the old Victorian house-turned-residence, the girls discover the diary of Connie Harvell, a young woman who was confined and abused there some 50 years ago. In the end, Connie’s attic prison couldn't hold her—not completely. She found a way out. At least a dark part of her did. And after reading her diary, the girls discover they can escape at will too. A terrifying, thrilling flight from their bodies and their troubles. But God help them, their pain isn't all they leave behind when they join with the night. And God help anyone who’s wronged them...

Download or read book Dig Me Out written by Amy Lee Lillard and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning genres, continents, and eras, Amy Lee Lillard's multilayered debut story collection is all at once outrageously imaginative, provocative, and deeply absorbing. Ranging from the speculative to the historical, from magical realism to forensic realism, Dig Me Out carries the reader somewhere new -- and newly thrilling -- with every story, and constitutes a dazzling and rightfully dangerous work of literary art.

Download or read book Ghosts Dancing on Water written by Patricia Bernard and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the heart is destroyed, the mind is capable of unspeakable things in the name of love... Stevie loves his little sister Lily and will always protect her. As children, he was the one who looked after her. If anyone threatened her, she could always depend on him. Protecting her from Roy was the most difficult of all. He had too much power over both of them... Stevie wonders why his sister isn't turning to him for help now. Where is she? Who's stopping her from contacting him? Determined to find her, Stevie won't be distracted from his single-minded purpose. He and Lily have to be together for always. As for the other bodies? When Stevie is crossed, people don't live long...

Download or read book Bodies in Bedlam written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As far as I’m concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell Scott should be in the Top Ten of any readers list of favorite private eyes.” --Robert J. Randisi For four decades, Richard S. Prather published over 40 works of detective fiction, most featuring his clever, cad-about-town hero, Shell Scott. Known for their arched humor, punchy dialogue, and sunny Southern California locale, the Shell Scott books represent one of the greatest private eye collections ever produced. BODIES IN BEDLAM A Shell Scott Mystery Shell Scott. He’s a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world’s public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can’t help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Constanza Carmocha is like a cat in heat; she innocently purrs while scratching your eyes out with her razor-sharp claws. She is a dame skilled in the age-old act of bending men to her will, using no other weapon than her lips and the sensuous curve of her hips. But she had already left behind a trail of dead bodies, and this gal’s blaze burns everyone who touches her. Shell’s seen his fair share of women, and this one can’t have a deeper bag of tricks than he? Or can she? Bodies in Bedlam is the 2nd book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.